The Yellow Claw is a 1921 British silent crime film directed by René Plaissetty and starring Sydney Seaward, Arthur M. Cullin and Harvey Braban.
[3] It was based on the 1915 novel The Yellow Claw by Sax Rohmer, in which a French detective battles a notorious master criminal named Mr. King.
A frightened woman is murdered in the London apartment of a well-known novelist named Henry Leroux.
The police arrest Leroux's butler, but he escapes and runs off to a mysterious opium den, the lair of a drug dealer named Mister King.
Gaston Max, a detective from Paris, arrives in London to investigate the drug trafficking.